Welcome to Future Pathways

Future Pathways offers help and support to people who were abused or neglected as children while they were living in care in Scotland. We work together to help survivors access person-centred support that will help them to lead full, healthy and independent lives and find their own pathways to a positive future.

‘In care’ includes living in residential or foster care, living in a boarding school (state, private or independent), having a long-term stay in hospital or spending time in a Young Offender’s Institution.

Abuse and neglect means being treated with cruelty or violence, and it may have been physical, emotional or sexual abuse, resulting in a profound and negative impact on a person’s life, their health and happiness.

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Facebook guidelines
Our Facebook page is a good way to keep up to date with our work and hear experiences from people who we’ve worked with. We want to make sure people can get involved in discussions and share their ideas respectfully. Please post comments carefully and think about what impact they may have on other people.
We want everyone to feel comfortable when reading this page, so we will delete anything that could cause distress to other people. This includes:
• any comment which discriminates against someone based on sex, age, race, religion or belief, disability, gender reassignment, marital status or sexual orientation
• bullying or aggressive comments
• swearing
• linking to inappropriate content
• personal insults
• threats
• any detail of abuse or neglect, whether past or present, whether it happened to yourself or someone else.
All activity on this page is moderated, and any comments which break these rules will be removed. If this happens we will always try to let you know why this is. We may also permanently block any poster deemed to be disruptive.
Privacy
This page is public, and can be read by anyone, including people who are not members of Facebook. Therefore we do not allow comments on this page which share personal, identifying or sensitive information, whether of yourself, a family member or anyone else. This includes:
• names and addresses
• information which could be used in an internet search to identify someone. As examples:
• relationship to poster or other people
• town or region where people live
• physical descriptions
• descriptions of actions
• age
• information about pending or ongoing court cases
• information which is not known to the general public at the time of posting.
Immediate help
This page is monitored between 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday. We can’t provide crisis support, or general support over social media.
If you are feeling distressed, in a state of despair, suicidal or need emotional support, contact:
• NHS 24: 111. If you think you have an emergency situation or need an ambulance you should dial 999
• Samaritans: 116 123 (UK), 116 123 (ROI). 24hrs/7 days a week, local rate call charge
• Breathing Space: Freephone 0800 83 85 87. 6pm - 2am week days, 24 hrs at weekends from 6pm on Friday to 6am on Monday
• Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02. 6pm-12pm, 7 days a week
• ChildLine: Freephone 0800 11 11. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
If you want to register with Future Pathways, please visit our website for more information: www.future-pathways.co.uk

We're joining third sector colleagues at The Gathering today, which was officially opened by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon! Stop by our stall if you're here for more info about how we can support people who were abused in care.

The National Confidential Forum (NCF) has been set up as part of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014. The Scottish Government has legislated for and funded the NCF to show the importance given to the experiences of adults who were in institutional care as children. NCF is a Committee of th...

Flora, our Alliance Manager, was interviewed by a news team from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation today. A great opportunity for Future Pathways to let people living "down under", who were in care in Scotland, know about how we can support them!